ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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State Board of Agriculture to erect a 

 larger and more commodious building 

 for these two closely allied industries 

 in their annual exhibits. 



C P. Dadant, 

 J. W. Bowen, 

 W. H. Hyde, 



Committee. 

 On motion', the foregoing was 

 adopted. 



Revising the Premium List. 



Mr. Dadant — I have a resolution in 

 regard to the preanium list. The Sec- 

 retary, in Ms report, said the premium 

 list had some TViordinigs in it that 

 needed changing. ' (The resolution was 

 read, and, upon motion, it was adopted 

 seriatim, and placed with the Secre- 

 tary, as a part of thisi report.) 



Mr. Stone — ^I want to say to the As- 

 sociation, this premiium list (I worded 

 myself), and I came near being beaten 

 at the Fair, because of the letter "S." 

 The other fellow got beaten because 

 he Ihad only a single design, and I 

 happened to have more than one de- 

 sign, and didn't get ibeaten. Now, in 

 getting up tShat list, we put It in the 

 plural number, because we supposed 

 where there were three or four de- 

 signs, one would get the first, one the 

 second, and one the third; we didn't 

 think each man would be required to 

 have two designs. That "&" just hap- 

 pened there. 



Like we put it, "Honey Extracted 

 on the Ground," and the first thing 

 we knew th^ere were men, that came 

 there with 500 pounds of honey that 

 claimed to be extracted on the ground, 

 when it was not. Our object was to 

 make It educational, and have the 

 honey actually extracted on the ground. 

 It is not educational where they bring 

 it on the ground already extracted, so 

 we changed it to read, "Honey Ex- 

 tracting on the Ground." 



I think tlhat the letter "s" should be 

 taken off from the word "designs" of 

 beeswax — to make it singular number. 



Mr. Coppin^ — I fail to see how those 

 two jars of comb honey could have 

 been awarded the first premium as 

 being designs, in preference to the let- 

 ters that were built by the bees, in 

 honey, "Illinois State Fair," and the 

 words, "In God We Trust." The judge 

 gave the blue rib'bon to a man, because 

 he said: "This man Ihasn't got any 

 ribbon at all." He did not do it be- 



cause of the design, but because he 

 took pity on 'him. 



Mr. Dadant — 'Perhaps it would be as 

 well to have a vote on each of these 

 sections separately. First, we might 

 consider the matter of the letter "s" in 

 the designs on beeswax, making it 

 read "^design." 



Mr. Stone — ^I want to say this list 

 now Ihas been going on for four or 

 five years this way, and it occurred 

 two or three years ago that this 

 premium was wrongly awarded to an 

 Indiana man, that had just two nicely 

 shaped bottles, like you see in any 

 druggist's window. The first globe was 

 one color, and the otlh^r another color. 

 He had two of those bottles, and they 

 were filled with ihoney. Mr. Coppin 

 never knew until this year why he 

 failed to get the premium, and Mrs. 

 Ooppin cried over 'it; we all sympa- 

 thized iwith her. 



Mr. York — Were not those same 

 things there a year ago? 



Mr. Stone — ^Mr. Coppin had two or 

 three designs. He had "In God We 

 Trust" and his own name, wofked out 

 in letters, by the bees. 



Mr. York — I certainly gave him the 

 premium on it, as I was the judge. 



Mr. Stone — The other fellow didn't. 

 I got onto it in this way: Mr. Becker 

 said to 'ine, "Who are we going to 

 have for judge this year?" I told :him 

 that the Superintendent told me it 



was going to be Mr and he 



said, "Well, his decisions have been 

 satisfactory." I referred him to the 

 decision he had made that was not 

 satisfactory, and Mr. Becker said, 

 "Don't you know why ihe ruled that 

 way? Because there were two de- 

 signs." 



Mr. Becker — A little explanation may 

 be well fromi me on that. The .judge 

 came around to my exhibit, and I sup- 

 posed, like Mr. Stone and the rest, that 

 we were simply to furnish a design. 

 He said to me, "WTiere are your de- 

 signs?" And I replied, "There it is — 

 the Honey-'H'ouse." He said, "You 

 must have more than one design." 

 That was the first time we ever had 

 noticed it being "designs." As to the 

 Indiana man getting the premium over 

 Mr. Coppin, Judge Blank's only ex- 

 planation was, "The poor fellow ought 

 to have something." 



Mr. Dadant — In this matter you want 

 to 'have everything so explicit that a 



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